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Les Wexner builds a house
It’s big, really big. We’ve searched for the facts on the new home of Columbus’s celebrity billionaire.
This story appeared in the May 1990 issue of Columbus Monthly.
Legend has it that one day a few years ago Les Wexner and Jack Kessler were roughing it in the Great Outback, somewhere in the Far Northeast, somewhere near New Albany. While driving his Land Rover, Wexner saw acre upon acre of empty farmland. Virgin soil. He had this vision thing. Here is where he would build himself a home. Then the billionaire and his buddy had another vision thing. Why not develop a little Camelot for a bunch of other really rich folks. Stately villas with a stylish name, The Villages at Rocky Fork. It would made Muirfield look like M/I Homes. So, shadow companies were formed, land and homes bought and finally public announcements made about the development, which immediately acquired the nickname “Wexley.” Then late last year, without fanfare, the bulldozers bit into the earth. Say hello, New Albany, to your new neighbor-to-be. Les Wexner–chairman of the Limited, holdings worth an estimated $2.1 billion and among a handful of the country’s richest people–is building a house.
Posted Jun 18, 2018 at 12:01 AM Updated Jun 18, 2018 at 5:49 PM
It’s big, really big. We’ve searched for the facts on the new home of Columbus’s celebrity billionaire.
This story appeared in the May 1990 issue of Columbus Monthly.
Legend has it that one day a few years ago Les Wexner and Jack Kessler were roughing it in the Great Outback, somewhere in the Far Northeast, somewhere near New Albany. While driving his Land Rover, Wexner saw acre upon acre of empty farmland. Virgin soil. He had this vision thing. Here is where he would build himself a home.
Then the billionaire and his buddy had another vision thing. Why not develop a little Camelot for a bunch of other really rich folks. Stately villas with a stylish name, The Villages at Rocky Fork. It would made Muirfield look like M/I Homes.
So, shadow companies were formed, land and homes bought and finally public announcements made about the development, which immediately acquired the nickname “Wexley.” Then late last year, without fanfare, the bulldozers bit into the earth. Say hello, New Albany, to your new neighbor-to-be. Les Wexner–chairman of the Limited, holdings worth an estimated $2.1 billion and among a handful of the country’s richest people–is building a house. Call it the House Forenza Built.
Call it anything you want, except modest. For Franklin County, it’s the house of the millennium. It’s not every day that Central Ohio, which registers a 2.5 on the glitz scale, has its highest-profile rich guy, one of its few national-headline celebrities, building a spectacular mansion.
So, we wonder, exactly how big is The House? Speculation puts it at 50,000, maybe 60,000 square feet. What does that actually mean? Well, a big Muirfield house is 7,000 to 8,000 square feet, for instance. If The House is 60,000 square feet, it would be bigger than an acre, which is 43,560 square feet. The sum of its interior spaces could hold a football field, with a few extra first downs thrown in. It would be 10,000 square feet larger than the “Son of Heaven” exhibition space at Central High School. We also noticed a recent New York Times piece fawning over a Big Apple couple building a palatial estate in Connecticut; the architect couldn’t remember how many rooms were in it. That mansion is 21,000 square feet. Ha! Wexner could store that house in a walk-in closet. The total square footage this bachelor calls home is growing to an extraordinary figure, something akin to the size of a small Third World nation. He already owns places in Bexley, Aspen and New York. The biggest of those, his Aspen abode of glass, stucco and wood, is 35,000 square feet.
https://www.columbusmonthly.com/news/20180618/les-wexner-builds-house
'''Anon's there are several of these kind of properties in different states.